Word: clots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treatment for heart attacks developed 30 years ago and then largely abandoned may cut death rates as much as two-thirds when used in conjunction with today's clot-busting drugs and angioplasty. The findings are still preliminary, but the treatment is simple: within 24 hours of a heart attack, patients are put on an IV containing sugar, insulin and potassium...
What the disc won't do is calculate your risk of developing uterine cancer or a blood clot. (Researchers hope to add that feature in coming months, so be sure to get on the mailing list for upgrades.) Nor can it tell you when to start taking tamoxifen. Some researchers believe that taking the drug for five years will lower your risk for the rest of your life, but that hasn't been proved. "The disc can't give you all the information you need to make a decision," says Dr. Barnett Kramer, deputy director of cancer prevention...
...Genentech backed the idea. At the time, European researchers had reported that the biotech company's clot-busting drug, TPA, worked no better, yet cost far more, than the standard clot buster. If TPA was to survive, it had to quantify its benefits to insurers. With a fortune on the line, Genentech turned to Califf. Within two years, Califf and the Cleveland Clinic organized a network that enrolled 41,000 patients. Conclusion: compared with the standard drug, TPA saved more than 2,000 lives a year...
DIED. TAMMY WYNETTE, 55, country music's down-home diva; of a blood clot; in Nashville, Tenn. A beautician turned songstress, she performed often plaintive ballads that imitated her life story: five marriages, bankruptcy, a painkiller addiction and a kidnapping. Her iconic anthem, Stand by Your Man, made feminists wince--Hillary Clinton among them--but Wynette stood by her twangy tunes through more than 50 albums and 20 No. 1 hits. (See EULOGY below...
UNFILTERED, PLEASE Doctors often surgically insert a tiny mesh filter into a patient's groin to prevent a blood clot in the leg from traveling to the lung. Now research suggests that people with the filter may get as many lung clots as those without...